Ah the old CompuColor! I fell in love with it at a local computer store in Toledo, OH. The big selling point for me was the Star Trek game where the Enterprise shot a block graphics phaser at the Klingons. Previously all my Star Trekking (actually a modified Space Wars) was scrolling text based. I don't recall if the price tag was $2000 or $5000 -- either way it was well beyond any reasonable hope for my working class minimum wage budget (at that time).
What should the judges, bailiffs and clerks be doing if they're not hearing cases (or doing the associated tasks involved with)? Or should they only entertain cases YOU approve of?
The media always goes after the biggest target. . ..
Perfectly stated! Whether the target merits the negative attention or not matters little to the media. The leader in any industry is going to have a big bullseye painted on their back. Pick any industry: Fast food? McDonalds. Brick and mortar retail? Walmart. Online retail? Amazon. Desktop Software? Microsoft.
I understand your numbers LordNicholas and thank you for the explanation. The part I'm having trouble with is the advertisers. It just seems crazy to me that an advertiser would be more interested in 100% of the households who may or may not watch a given channel/program rather than 50% of the households who have actually voted with their wallets and are willing to pay a premium to see a channel/program. From my admittedly layman's point of view, those are the viewers I care about and to hell with the other 50%.
I wonder if they'll offer punch cards too. Maybe if you get 10 punches on your card you can cash it in for the "Skip anal probe" or for 50 punches you can be the groper. Or for 75 punches you can be the groper AND pick the gropee.
As you say, adding a GPS radio to a tablet would probably only marginally increase the cost. But the deal breaker for the manufacturers is the big drain on battery life. And that seems to be a huge bullet item on the marketing spec sheets. Personally, GPS is a feature I want and if the tablet doesn't have an important feature I want, then really battery life becomes irrelevant to me. I guess I'm not an average consumer . . .
Seriously. I read that article and I didn't see any clear definition. Is it anything larger than a 2.5" laptop drive? Any 3.5" drive having certain characteristics? Maybe less than 10K rpm? Is a 3.5" 7200rpm drive with an "enterprise" sticker on it a server drive or a desktop drive?
I think if you look in most (if not all) US states you'll find their legislatures have explicitly defined driving as a "privilege" -- with no room for subjective interpretation. Until legislatures decide to redefine it as right, it's gonna be a privilege
Now having said that, I don't disagree at all that driving is a very necessary privilege and one that a person should try to avoid losing (especially if one is in an area underserved or not served at all by public transportation). But it's still not a right.
American mainstream news generally doesn't give a shit about international events unless it involves celebrities, celebrities dying, normal people dying en masse, or distant places that the government claims to be warring with or policing. Canadian politics simply aren't worth column inches, unless it directly affects the States or the media's ability to follow a story.
You are very correct. And you know why that is? It's because mainstream America generally doesn't give a shit about international events unless it involves your list of exceptions (whether we should or shouldn't give a shit is another debate). The media is simply giving their customers what they want. Believe me, the day Canadian politics becomes interesting to average Americans will be the day you can't swing a dead cat in Ottawa without hitting a Fox News truck.
The 1500 is the successor to the 510 which, likewise, was the successor to the 500. The "m" denotes the Mac version (same scanner, different bundled software). Each (AFAIK) includes a bundled copy Adobe Acrobat Standard. I guess this is good or bad depending on your opinion of Acrobat (personally I hate it, but it's a necessary evil if you have other applications that only have Acrobat plugins available). No problems with portability or dependability either - I have auditors hauling 30+ all over hell's half acre without a single problem in the past 5 years or so.
All over the place. There's still a great many widely used software packages that evolved from and still use DOS/8.3 file naming. One example: Peachtree Accounting (in various flavors).
IMHO, subsidized phones ought to go away. Hiding the true price of the phones behind carrier subsidies frees the phone manufacturers from having to price their phones openly and competitively.
Imagine if there were no subsidized phones. Would we still have iPhones, Samsung Galaxies, HTC whatchamacallits and whatever else? I think so. Would they cost $500 or more? I doubt it - I think market competition would drive the prices down. Plus we might actually have some reasonably priced contract terms for service.
Instead we have manufacturers who set whatever exorbitant price they like and conspire with the carriers to hide that price into locked-in contracts. PT Barnum, wherever he is, must be smiling!
Nope. The most stolen cars are the ones that have the best market for stripped parts or are most likely to have fencable goods inside. The Olds Cutlass led the list for many years simply because most of its parts were interchangeable between most GM brands.
The only MS products I buy are ones that I feel I have to - a copy of Windows (for gaming) and a copy of Office (like it or not, it is something of a standard). Other than that I don't HAVE to have and certainly don't WANT anything from Microsoft -- especially not a smartphone OS.
Nope. Look at the web page, click on the link at the top for HDMI cables, then sort price from highest to lowest. There's a slew of cables in the $500-$1000 price range. At least some of them are rather long -- like 60+ meters -- didn't realize the specs permitted such lengths (but my attention span is far too short to look up the actual limits). Still kinda spendy even with the extended lengths.
I have to respectfully disagree here. Racking and stacking my gear made all the sense in the world to me. I have the following (from bottom to top) all in the same approx 22"x30" footprint:
- 2 UPS: 1200W & 1500W freestanding (if one ever dies I might consider replacing with rackmount version depending on costs)
- Epson (blech!) All-In-One printer sitting on rack-mounted shelf
- FreeBSD (not FreeNAS!) NAS server built into 4U Norco RPC4224 24-bay hot swappable chassis. Holds virtually all my spinning disks (only exception being a Windows data disk I use in a gaming desktop). Spare hot-swap trays are only 5 bucks each which makes for easy backup. (Perfect? No. Cheaper than a big ass tape drive and media? Depends. Better than nothing? Infinitely!)
- Dedicated Mythtv backend in 3U iStar chassis (SSD boot, all other storage on NAS)
- 2U VM server
- Keyboard tray
- Monitor on shelf (mythtv motherboard not currently iKVM capable)
- Trendnet 16port VLAN switch
- Shelf for DSL modem and wireless AP
Having everything stacked vertically has saved me a ton of floor space. Could I have collapsed everything into fewer boxes? Sure. But that's not something I cared to do. I like my boxes having their specific functions. Could I have used conventional shelving/storage units (such as bread racks) instead. Yep. But they wouldn't give me the same space efficiency as a 19" rack (might have saved a few bucks though)
Regarding FreeNAS: I have no particular beef with FreeNAS. It's quite good if it does exactly what you want it to do. If it doesn't (for example: if it doesn't mount partitions where you want them to be, or you need some packages not included with it), it's a never ending struggle. Guess it's the age old trade-off of ease of use versus flexibility.
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Ah the old CompuColor! I fell in love with it at a local computer store in Toledo, OH. The big selling point for me was the Star Trek game where the Enterprise shot a block graphics phaser at the Klingons. Previously all my Star Trekking (actually a modified Space Wars) was scrolling text based. I don't recall if the price tag was $2000 or $5000 -- either way it was well beyond any reasonable hope for my working class minimum wage budget (at that time).
What should the judges, bailiffs and clerks be doing if they're not hearing cases (or doing the associated tasks involved with)? Or should they only entertain cases YOU approve of?
The media always goes after the biggest target. . . .
Perfectly stated! Whether the target merits the negative attention or not matters little to the media. The leader in any industry is going to have a big bullseye painted on their back. Pick any industry: Fast food? McDonalds. Brick and mortar retail? Walmart. Online retail? Amazon. Desktop Software? Microsoft.
I understand your numbers LordNicholas and thank you for the explanation. The part I'm having trouble with is the advertisers. It just seems crazy to me that an advertiser would be more interested in 100% of the households who may or may not watch a given channel/program rather than 50% of the households who have actually voted with their wallets and are willing to pay a premium to see a channel/program. From my admittedly layman's point of view, those are the viewers I care about and to hell with the other 50%.
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I wonder if they'll offer punch cards too. Maybe if you get 10 punches on your card you can cash it in for the "Skip anal probe" or for 50 punches you can be the groper. Or for 75 punches you can be the groper AND pick the gropee.
As you say, adding a GPS radio to a tablet would probably only marginally increase the cost. But the deal breaker for the manufacturers is the big drain on battery life. And that seems to be a huge bullet item on the marketing spec sheets. Personally, GPS is a feature I want and if the tablet doesn't have an important feature I want, then really battery life becomes irrelevant to me. I guess I'm not an average consumer . . .
Seriously. I read that article and I didn't see any clear definition. Is it anything larger than a 2.5" laptop drive? Any 3.5" drive having certain characteristics? Maybe less than 10K rpm? Is a 3.5" 7200rpm drive with an "enterprise" sticker on it a server drive or a desktop drive?
I think if you look in most (if not all) US states you'll find their legislatures have explicitly defined driving as a "privilege" -- with no room for subjective interpretation. Until legislatures decide to redefine it as right, it's gonna be a privilege
Now having said that, I don't disagree at all that driving is a very necessary privilege and one that a person should try to avoid losing (especially if one is in an area underserved or not served at all by public transportation). But it's still not a right.
Here I thought the day I would ever agree with Eric Schmidt on something was long, long gone!
You must have gone to school with only "the pretty well off" - the truly rich pay somebody to do the wanking for them.
American mainstream news generally doesn't give a shit about international events unless it involves celebrities, celebrities dying, normal people dying en masse, or distant places that the government claims to be warring with or policing. Canadian politics simply aren't worth column inches, unless it directly affects the States or the media's ability to follow a story.
You are very correct. And you know why that is? It's because mainstream America generally doesn't give a shit about international events unless it involves your list of exceptions (whether we should or shouldn't give a shit is another debate). The media is simply giving their customers what they want. Believe me, the day Canadian politics becomes interesting to average Americans will be the day you can't swing a dead cat in Ottawa without hitting a Fox News truck.
When the hell did Time and the Washington Post become "august" pubs???
More like they sold you an all you can eat buffet, and then when they started running out of food replaced the dinner plates with saucers.
The 1500 is the successor to the 510 which, likewise, was the successor to the 500. The "m" denotes the Mac version (same scanner, different bundled software). Each (AFAIK) includes a bundled copy Adobe Acrobat Standard. I guess this is good or bad depending on your opinion of Acrobat (personally I hate it, but it's a necessary evil if you have other applications that only have Acrobat plugins available). No problems with portability or dependability either - I have auditors hauling 30+ all over hell's half acre without a single problem in the past 5 years or so.
We have have highly credible reports that Farmville is planning a sneak attack on Washington. Air Force One is fueled and ready.
All over the place. There's still a great many widely used software packages that evolved from and still use DOS/8.3 file naming. One example: Peachtree Accounting (in various flavors).
IMHO, subsidized phones ought to go away. Hiding the true price of the phones behind carrier subsidies frees the phone manufacturers from having to price their phones openly and competitively.
Imagine if there were no subsidized phones. Would we still have iPhones, Samsung Galaxies, HTC whatchamacallits and whatever else? I think so. Would they cost $500 or more? I doubt it - I think market competition would drive the prices down. Plus we might actually have some reasonably priced contract terms for service.
Instead we have manufacturers who set whatever exorbitant price they like and conspire with the carriers to hide that price into locked-in contracts. PT Barnum, wherever he is, must be smiling!
The most stolen cars are the most popular. . .
Nope. The most stolen cars are the ones that have the best market for stripped parts or are most likely to have fencable goods inside. The Olds Cutlass led the list for many years simply because most of its parts were interchangeable between most GM brands.
You don't steal cars to own, so affordability is irrelevant. You steal cars for parts. Or for joyriding.
The only MS products I buy are ones that I feel I have to - a copy of Windows (for gaming) and a copy of Office (like it or not, it is something of a standard). Other than that I don't HAVE to have and certainly don't WANT anything from Microsoft -- especially not a smartphone OS.
Oops - 60+ FEET not meters. Still awfully long.
Nope. Look at the web page, click on the link at the top for HDMI cables, then sort price from highest to lowest. There's a slew of cables in the $500-$1000 price range. At least some of them are rather long -- like 60+ meters -- didn't realize the specs permitted such lengths (but my attention span is far too short to look up the actual limits). Still kinda spendy even with the extended lengths.
I have to respectfully disagree here. Racking and stacking my gear made all the sense in the world to me. I have the following (from bottom to top) all in the same approx 22"x30" footprint:
- 2 UPS: 1200W & 1500W freestanding (if one ever dies I might consider replacing with rackmount version depending on costs)
- Epson (blech!) All-In-One printer sitting on rack-mounted shelf
- FreeBSD (not FreeNAS!) NAS server built into 4U Norco RPC4224 24-bay hot swappable chassis. Holds virtually all my spinning disks (only exception being a Windows data disk I use in a gaming desktop). Spare hot-swap trays are only 5 bucks each which makes for easy backup. (Perfect? No. Cheaper than a big ass tape drive and media? Depends. Better than nothing? Infinitely!)
- Dedicated Mythtv backend in 3U iStar chassis (SSD boot, all other storage on NAS)
- 2U VM server
- Keyboard tray
- Monitor on shelf (mythtv motherboard not currently iKVM capable)
- Trendnet 16port VLAN switch
- Shelf for DSL modem and wireless AP
Having everything stacked vertically has saved me a ton of floor space. Could I have collapsed everything into fewer boxes? Sure. But that's not something I cared to do. I like my boxes having their specific functions. Could I have used conventional shelving/storage units (such as bread racks) instead. Yep. But they wouldn't give me the same space efficiency as a 19" rack (might have saved a few bucks though)
Regarding FreeNAS: I have no particular beef with FreeNAS. It's quite good if it does exactly what you want it to do. If it doesn't (for example: if it doesn't mount partitions where you want them to be, or you need some packages not included with it), it's a never ending struggle. Guess it's the age old trade-off of ease of use versus flexibility.